Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-16
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manufacturing Industries Booming II
tho East and Real Estate In In
West-The SOlidity Of Montana Mines
in Money Centers-Two Important
Railroads..
Mr. r. L. Bonner arrived in town yester
day morning after an absence OF seven OF
o;cht months. The MINER representative
ri of his arrival and going to the Bon
Mercantile Company found Mr.. Bonner
in the office.
81 understand you have just returned
.uom a trip in search OF health, Mr.. Bon.
ner?'
Yes. | went East 6rst and have been in
>ow York and Washington during most oi
Ne" me and have lust returned from Cali.
tarnia. where | spent the last month in
San Francisco. Pasadena, San Bernardino
ard other resots.'
How did you find business in the East? ?"
Most prosperous. The wholesale
ho,ses | visited assured me they were doing
Tho largest business this year they had ever
lone Commerce confidence is perfectly
tablished: the manufacturing houses are
uusbed to the utmost limit of production
IN all lines that 1 could hear of and the
ybolesale men had all they could possibly
co.
"Hnw are Montana mining enterprises
REGARDED in New York;"
aOur mines stand at the head Of all in
tho New York and Eastern markets. No
others can. touch them. Mexico, New Mex
ico. Arizona and all the rest rank below
them. The reason is the snlidity, honesty
Aal,- rnl,,cfiyonoS rf tho rpinipO
nrnperties in this territory. The depres-
zion of the bullion market has of course
had it's injurious effect upon our mines as
mon all others. But the confidence in
Montana mining securities in the money
centres OF the East is complete and cannot
he approached by any Others"
What wal the feature hat most i'm
messed you in California, Mr.. Bonner?"
1.-THE demand for real estate. There is
ths most unprecedented boom in real prop
erty there they ever had. 1t is most prom
inently exemplified in What may be called
watering places-in resorts like San Ber-
nardino; but it is not confined to them.
All these places are crowded with Eastern
strangers. The San Francisco hotels were
full Of visitors"
'IIow about the railroad enterprises in
which YOU are interested, Mr.. Bonner"
They are going IN very satisfactorily.
The road up the Bitter Root Valley will
tap the most fertile section OF Montana.
Everything there is a month ahead OF the
rest of the Territory. They raise melons
and all the finer class OF vegetables there,
and Missoula is bound to be vastly benefit
ed by it,
''IVill Missoula not become a mere way |
station when that road is finished?"
"By no means. By furnishing an outlet
to the rest of the Territory for that section,
the farming country about Missoula will
reap unspeakable benefit, and that town
itself will become d distributing center for
alarge portion OF the Bitter Root Valley
product"
How about the PhiIipsburg road?"
That again is entirely a Internationally
and the advantages OF railroad connection
there need not be enlarged upon
"How much capital is being invested in
these enterprises, Mr.. Bouner?"
about "a million and a half"
How do o find matters upon your
return here?"
ooh, perfectly satisfactory. Better,
probably, than if | had been here all the
time" lie added laughingly.